A land-grant WHOLE plant physiology lab
Our lab integrates environmental plant physiology across all scales of organization! See our publication list for examples.
As an agronomist for the Agricultural Experimental Station, fifty percent of Matthew's effort is related to the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences land-grant mission, and thus we frame our research around:
Question: How we can inform problems relating to California's people, agriculture or environmental science?
Answers: bean drought physiology, agricultural water use, crop water management, urban plant environmental responses, we've even worked on landscape change and historical perspectives.
Assumptions
A major focus of our work is re-evaluating the conceptual basis of techniques and operational ideas like climate change experimentation, Water-Use Efficiency
Tools
We are committed to developing new physical and conceptual tools for plant research
Community
The community we create has huge impact on all our lives. A particular focus has been career intervention in undergraduate teaching, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and mentoring of Graduate Students, and mentoring of Graduate Students